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This Week b Arthur Brisbane Death for Kidnaping The President's Address Sloan's Good News Great Gondwanaland The big news comes from Kansas City, Mo., where Walter McGee, who kidnaped Mary McKlroy and collected $30,000 ransom, Is sentenced to death, to make sure thnt he will never kid nap another woman. This first Infliction of the death penalty In connection with kldhaplng in the United States, Is believed by a Kansas City Jury, and the prosecuting attorney and others, a step toward discouraging kidnaping. The population of the United States, and a great part of the civilized world outside discusses President Roosevelt's admirable radio address. Its deep sin cerity and lofty purpose. "Omens" do not bother the Presi dent, who speaks with pride of the crowded events of "the hundred days" since his Inauguration, that have been devoted to "starting the wheels of the new deal." The expression, the "hundred days," was tlrst used to describe the period between Napoleon's return from Elba, Mnrch 15, 1815, and June 28. 1815, ; when Louis XVIII becaim- king, and the prefect of Paris, welcoming him, spoke of the cent Jours. These "hundred ( 1 s" to President Roosevelt mean da.,, that "will start the wheels turning now, and not six months from now." President Roosevelt is not Interest ed In anything around the corner. One encouraging "straw" showing which way the prosperity wind is blowing comes from the General Mo tors company. Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., General Motors president, Informs you that earnings on the 43,500,000 shares of his company for the first three months of this year were seven times greater than In the same period last year. The General Motors com pany earned for Its stockholders In three months, after paying all charges and taxes, more than $41,000,000. Did you ever hear of Gondwana land? It is not only real, but the big gest thing on earth bnrrlng the Pacific ocean. Geologists In Washington want you to know about Gondwanaland, gi gantic continent that disappeared be low the ocean 150,000,000 years ago. That huge continent, as big as Eu rope and Asia together, named for Gondwana, district of Central Asia, may Interest us when we begin explor ing and exploiting treasures that lie below the water. There are under sea in Gondwana land great beds of coal, much Iron, and heaven knows what else in the way of gold and other precious stuff. Two strange deaths In Now York. A man, very poor Henry Jellnek, fifty years old, bought a roll In a restau rant, put poison on It, ate some, went to the washroom ahd died. A woman, Lillian Rosenfeld, who left $45,000 In one bank, and had been Bleeping In a cellar on a broken bed with no mattress, seized the bread that the man had left, swallowed It, and she, too, died. If you want to do It, as President Roosevelt said, you can do It, and Mr. Farley, new postmaster general, Is en gaged In demonstrating the soundnoss of that observation. According to his assistant, Ambrose O'Connell, Mr. Far ley has practically wiped out the pos tal deficit of $153,000,000 In a few months and without hurting the mall service. If that can he done, many other things probably could be done. Germany's new government contin ues to pass laws that It thinks may he necessary or useful. The penalty for "spreading lies," Including stories of "atrocities" against Jews or others, la to bo death. An attempt ?n the life of a member of the Nazi army will be punished by death. Captain Goerlng, for Chancellor Hit ler, announces that he Is about to "take hold with the mailed fist" and "whoever lays hands on the National Roelailst (Nazi) movement shall know that he will pay with his life In the shortest time, simple establishment of Intention being sufficient for convic tion." Geologists gathered In Washington give all sorts of Interesting Informa tion, and Incidentally reassure you, If you are worried by gentlemen occa sionally announcing the end of the ?world. The sun. according to Doctor Lane, while using up Its mass at the rato of 3,700.000 tons per second. Is so big thnt "only two-thousandths of the to tal will ho used up In ten million years." Many things should be ac complished In thnt length of time, considering thnt all human history, about which we really know anything, goes back less than 10, 000 years, or a one-millionth part of the rime that lies Immediately nhtad of us. General Balho's flight with twenty four pianos from Italy to Chicago anrt New York shows thnt ftaly under stands flying machines. And now Nlcaragnn has made a con tract with an Italian company to pro vide fttr mall and air passenger service to every Nlcnraguan flying fleld. Roma American company xeeins to have missed nn opportunity. ItM, by Kin* feature* Syndicate, In* WNU S?rvto?. "I Love Hubby" Club Cheers Up Spouses Puente, Calif. ? Long suffering husbands here were walking prim rose paths following formation of "I Love My Husband club." The club, sponsored by the La Puente Valley Journal, was estab lished for the promotion of a more humane treatment of husbands. The club never meets, and has no dues. The sole requirement for members Is the practice of devo tion to husbands. Husbands are behind the club. "It's a great Idea," said one hus band. "We have a Mother's day, and a Father's day, but the poor hard working husbands appear to be forgotten altogether." WARS ON GANGSTERS Joseph H. Keenan, Cleveland attor ney, at his desk In the Department of Justice where he directs the co-ordi nated federal-state-niunlclpal crusade against gangsters and racketeers. Keenan, who gained valuable experi ence In his drive on Cleveland gang sters In 1910, has begun by compil ing a comprehensive list of gangland personnel. Politicians with criminal affiliations will come In for special attention, he said. 1932 Decreases U. S. Weddings, Diverges Census Officials Cite Job Scarcity as Reason. Washington. ? Cupid has been hit by the depression, but his bitterest enemy, divorce, has suffered even more. The bureau of the census has dis closed that the third year of the de pression, 1932, saw a sharp decrease both In marriages and divorces. The bureau gave no reasons, but of ficials express their belief that unem ployment, reduced earning power, and lack of confidence In the Immediate future were responsible. Marriages in 1932 totaled PSl,7f>n, the bureau reported, compared with 1,000,791 In 1031, a decrease of 7.5 per cent. The decline began In 1930 with a drop of 5.9 per cent. Divorces were 100,329 In 1932, com pared with 183,004 In the previous year ; the decrease was 12.7 per cent, while the 1930-'31 decline was 4.1 per cent. There were In 1932, the bureau stated, 7.9 marriages lor every 1,000 persons In the country's total popu lation of 124,822,000, as compared with 8.5 In 1931 when the population was 124,070,000. At the same time, there were 1.28 divorces for every 1.000 of population in 1932, as against 1.48 in 1931. Viewing Figures by States. In arriving at the national percent age decrease in the number of wed dings, the bureau found the declines in various states ranging from a drop of 43.5 per cent in Iowa to only 0.8 per cent In Texas. In ten states the bureau found In creases In the number of marriages. These gains were attributed Infer ential))' by the statistical census of ficials to eluding stringent marriage laws by skipping across a state to the nearest parson in a more liberal neighboring state. "All ten states," the bureau said, "adjoin those In which recent changes made in the marriage laws require Lumber Mills Are Busy as Prices Mount <S Payrolls Increase and Produc tion Shows Gain. Now Orleans. ? Long faces In the southern pine lumber Industry, which ranks second to King Cotton as the big shot of Dixie pny rolls, are bright ening. Employment has Increased, prices have gone up, and the plies of lumber weathering In the mill yards have di minished. After the stock market crash the Industry, under urglngs from the White House not to create unemploy ment by reducing manufacturing out put, and assured that prosperity was Just around the corner, carried on. During 1931 the price of lumber, un der the weight of piled up, unsold, un wanted lumber In mill yards, slumped rapidly. Operators offered their wares at lower and lower prLes In an effort to move the product and cnsh to meet pay rolls, bank obligations and taxes. In January, 1933, the Southern Pine Association reported that for one week 17,974,000 feet of lumber were rannu Dramatic Fights to Save Wild Fowl Are Reported Washington. ? Dramatic utorles of men battling frigid blasts and treach erous terrain to save thousands of wa terfowl from starvation last winter are told In a report of the biological survey. Fighting through Icy weather, 20 to 40 degrees below zero, United States Came Protector Kenneth F. Itoahen and helpers on foot and sled carried corn and wheat donated by farmers and sportsmen to selected feeding sta tions In southern Montann during n severe February freeze. There the grain was gobbled by thousands of half-famlshed wild ducks, most of them iiiHllards. Earlier In the winter Reservation Protector Hugh M. Worcester at the Upper Klamath Wild Life refuge, Ore gon, led a score of volunteers on a two day trip which resulted In the saving of 1,200 Ice-bound ducks and 100 horned and eared grebes. The birds were transported to pens at ref uge headquarters for recovery. Woman Battles 20 Hours and Lands 400-Pound Fish New York. ? Mrs. Oliver O. flrlnnell. of New York and Hay Shore, with the help of Wally Itaker, cnptain of her boat, the Ollgrln. landed on rod and reel In the gray dawn off Fire Island, n 400-pound broadtail swordflsh. after a battle lasting 20 hours. In making this catch Mrs. Orlnnell. who Is the holder of the women's Atlantic broad hill swordflfch record, experienced her greatest offshore adventure and at the same time Inaugurated the 1933 North Atlantic big game fishing season. Antftlopn Hat 119-Inch Horns Cambridge, Mass.? Horns r>9 Inches long ? within 5 Inches of the world rec ord ? grace a mounted giant sable an telope which haR been added to the rare anlnml collection at. the Harvard museum of comparative zoology. The antelope was bagged by Prentles Cray, of New York, In Portuguese Angola and presented by him. factured but only l.i, 000, 000 feet shipped. Unfilled orders totaled only 10,013,000 feet. Then the nation went off the gold standard and by May 27 the tile of unfilled orders had risen to 40,0.r;6,000 feet, a clear pain of 30,043,000 feet, or almost twice the shipments of the first week of the year. Shipments for the year to date, 512, 022,000 feet, have surpassed produc tion by 71,009,000 feet, reducing piled up stocks by that amount. The stock decrease, combined with the Increase In unfilled orders, shows a total gain in business of over 100, 000,000 feet. During the week of May 27, the mills reported they shipped 38,1)41,000 J feet, or more than the totals of the first two weeks of the year. During that same week, production was 20. 803,000 feet, an Increase which brought more employment and bigger pay rolls to be spent with tne mer chants. South American Indians First Mathematicians Kansas City, Mo. ? Indians In Cen tral America used anaesthetics long he fore Columbus made his voyage of dis covery, and were acquainted with the fundamentals of mathematics long be fore white men learned thein, according to Gregory Mason, explorer and arch eologlst. "How many Americans realize," Ma son r d, "that the Toltecs built a pyramid three times as great in hulk as the biggest In Kgypt, that the Peruvians made tapestries finer titan any of Europe, and that the Mayan.< Invented zero 0(K) years before the Hindus ? which means that the Mayans were able to multiply and divide 1,(KK) years before Europeans could. "The red skinned natives of Yuca tan, whom Cortez callod 'Harbarlans,' were better astronomers than the Eu ropeans, am' had a cnlendar far more from three to five days to elapse be tween the application for a marriage license and the Issuance of the same.* The ten states with the rate of their Increased wedding activity were Missouri, 3.5 per cent ; South Dakota 2.7 per cent ; Nebraska, 0.0 per cent ; West Virginia, 1.7 per cent; Missis sippi, 5.1 per cent ; Arkansas, 5.2 per cent; Oklahoma, less than one-tenth of 1 per cent ; New Mexico, 0 per cent; Arizona, 1 per cent, and Utah one-half of 1 per cent. For every divorce in this country during 1032, the bureau disclosed, there were 0.1 marriages. This repre sented a distinct gain for the mar riages. Last year there were 5.8 wed dings for every divorce. Nevada Leads List. Nevada, with its Reno, continued to lead the list of states In the ratio of divorces to marriages. Nevada re ported nearly as many endings as be ginnings of married life. There were only 1.8 weddings for every divorce in the state. New York and the Dis trict of Columbia, on the other hand, reported 21.4 and 35.3 weddings for every divorce during the year. In Illinois during the year, the na tional slump In both marriages nrul divorces was reflected, although, the decline In divorces was by far the heavier. Weddings in the state num bered 05,088. the bureau revealed, for a decrease of 9.1 per cent. Divorces totaled 11,745, declining by 15.5 per cent from the preceding year. There were 5.5 marriages for every divorce, and 8.4 weddings for every 1,000 of population in the state, as compared with 1.51 divorces. Wisconsin reported 14.035 marriages during the year, for a decrease of 5.1 per cent from 1031. Divorces totaled 2,358 In the state, declining by 10.0 per cent. There were 0 marriages for every divorce and 4.7 weddings and 0.70 divorces, for every 1,000 of popu lation. In Indiana, marriages numbered 3G, 105, dropping by 5.0 per cent, while divorces totaled 0,322 for a decrease of 13.1 per cent. For every divorce there were 5.7 weddings, while for every 1,000 inhabitants of the state there were 11 marriage and 1.93 divorces. accurate than the one Columbus was using and in some ways even superior to the one we use today." Mason's most recent expedition was financed Jointly by the Nelson art gal lery of Kansas City and the Museum of the American Indlnn, Heye founda tion, New York. Drilling for "Dry Ice" Booms Fields in Texas Midland, Tex. ? A new type of drill ing activity Is booming In this sec tion of Texas. The search now Is for carbon dioxide gas wells which pro duce "dry Ice." Derricks are nelng erected In Mora, Harding, and Torrnnce counties. The northeastern part of the state already has severnl "dry Ice" wells, which are proving to be better commercial assets than oil wells. Nine-Year-Old Writes and Reads 5 Languages Dalhart, Tex. ? Bobby Ryan, nine years old, can speak and read five languages. He was born of American parents In Mnnila, Philippine Islands, where he had n Chinese nurse. He acquired a Japanese nurse when his family moved to Yokohama and Tokyo. He learned the French and Spanish languages from books and conversation. White Men Forbidden to Fish on Reservation I'ocatello, Idaho. ? There was weep ing and walling among sportsmen here when the Indian council at the Fort Hall Indian reservation ruled tlint white men could not fish there under any circumstances. As the re""rvn tlon Includes choice fishing spo> s whlto sportsmen are pleading with dln.ig for a reversnl of the order. Cathedral Work Halts ? No Funds Air slow of the magnificent new national cathedral now in ,>roooHH of ronat ruction nt Mt. St. Albans near Washington. The *reat atrueturo la but one-third completed and construction has heen temporally halted duo to lack of funds. Ten million dollars In needed to complete tbe Job. National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Washington. ? Reminiscent of the stirring days of 1017, leaders In the . nation are calling for Rallying patriotic s n p p ?, r t. for New War 8l)eake?? '?re abroad ,, , ln the land with u call for united effort, posters dap from the walls of public places, all In a new war. Hut this war being conduct ed by our government and Its people Is a war to release the country from the bondage of an economic enemy, a final gigantic drive to restore a people to the plane where happiness can re P ace destitution, where steady em ployment can replace idle time and ^here profits will appear Instead of bankruptcy. The government, through President Roosevelt, Is calling upon nil and sundry to stand together again Just as firmly as they did Just about this time of the summer of 1917. Instead or t lie draft of men, however, the gov ernment Is asking only that etnplovers of labor, those who manufacture things to sell, those who engage in business of any kind, conform to cer tain rules. Those who buy the things that are produced by labor are asked to help In the cause by refusing to deal with the Individuals who do not co-operate and agree to the rules from which the President expects so much good to come. And so we have n national code a national agreement, rt set of rules of conduct. While the farm relief legis lation Is getting under wav, and it Is well under way. that farm 'prices mav be Incrensed, the government has at tacked the other phase of the prob I JPni, namely, relief for the millions " hose lot it Is to live and work in the cities. For them he is promising s lorter hours of work, a retention, if not an actual Increase, in pa v.' Of the manufacturers and the wholesalers and the retailers, the government Is asking that prices be n<?t raised he .vond the necessities resulting from Increased cost of raw materials and wages, in other words, the govern ment has asked that there he no profiteering, Just as It demanded dur ng the World war that some consid eration be given the consumer. No one can predict with what suc cess this new drive will be attended. It Is new In character. It Is described bv (len. Hugh S. Johnson, the na tional recovery administrator, as an appeal to the conscience and opinion of the people and to their good In stincts. I quote the general further: "After four years of hopeless and seemingly helpless suffering and Inac tion it would be unforglveable not to open to the country the chance It now has under this law to unite once more find overcome and maybe to defeat the depression. This Is a test of pa triotism. It is the time to demonstrate the faith of our fathers and our be lief In ourselves. "We are a people disciplined bv democracy to a self-control ? sufficient to unite our purchasing power? our labor power ? our management power to cnrry out this great national cov enant with vigor, with determination, but with the calm composure and fair play which always mark the American way." j And true to the thought, the philos j ophy, of that last sentence, the govern J ment Is seeking to obtain the co-opera , tion of nil of the people who must I make concessions by having them I make agreements with the President j voluntarily. The President said when , he signed the historical document that there would be no coercion It i? thr? American way. ? ? ? Tn brief, the government Is propos Ing that actual agreements will tie signed by the thou * sands who are being NationalCode nsk<>(' to make con cessions. The mill carriers have delivered blanks to all of them. FCach blank carries a state merit of fourteen points t.. which the employer of labor, the manufacturer of commodities for trade, the retailer or other dealer, is being asked In sub scribe They constitute the national code, ft is to be effective from August to December 31. Uy that time, it |? hoped that Individual industries of all kinds will have had nr. opportunity to work out codes, acceptable to fjeneral Johnson, that will serve as rules of principles and practice for that par ticular Industry, whether If he Tor the makers of g|?e. rnolders of pottery or the manufacturer In (be heavy' in I dustry such as steel. The national I code Is a stop-gnp, ? bridge for the recovery machinery to use while n permanent passage way to prosperity Is being erected on a firm foundation Industry must pledge its,. if nr,t fo circumvent the agreement |? ?f)V ,vnv bor must pledge Itself m ??mi dls tnrbances resulting from Its ?se of the strike as n weapon. .xiflf0 hoards "re being set up-they have been named In most sta;,s~fo help out the national admlnlst ration. Child labor h barred. A week of thirty five hours of work Is prescribed and if the estnb llshment must sfa.y open longer, more people can have Jobs, nil ,,t the old rate of pay. 1 ' While the recovery administrator's explanation of the code snld f|?.ro would be no coercion, it does seem pressure will be used if the basic agreements do not come in. signed at ?? rapid rate, ft may not be coercion but certainly there Is a tremendous economic force to be used, for the con sumers are asked to deal only with those who have signed agreements to conform. During all of this drive to get things going again ? the code calls It the "President's drive for re-employment" ? there are apt to be many unfair and unjust acts by the overzealous. There are certain to be recalcitrants who aro unwilling to make concessions for til's common good. But the most im portant class of all of those who may not comply will be those who are un able to comply because, to do so, they would be bankrupt. ? ? ? I have heard it suggested In conver- ( sations here that the sudden move to .blanket the nation Answering with a voluntary the Skeptics nproement on busi ness conduct might cause many persons In the country to become skeptical that things wore not going so well. It was feared thati those without complete Information aaJ to the plans and purposes of the goifl eminent might look upon the t'a^| reaching action as meaning that a nevN crisis was impending. The suggestions were not altogether without support ing reason. In the deluge of visitors who have come here to draft new codes in conference with (Jeneral Johnson, many have come with doubt In their mind as to the value or the Justice of the whole scheme. They were honest in their Judgment and simply viewed the program as unwork able and as forcing them into unnec essary hardships. It seems, therefore that an analysis of some of the rea sons for the national code should he made after it has been stated with some emphasis that there Is no new crisis, nothing more serious than he fore, to be seen on the horizon of the Immediate future. It will be remembered that the an nounced program of the President when h(? started the recovery plan w:?s fo boost commodity prices. He wanted to see t lie farmers get more for their products as a means of saving agri culture from the Inevitable bow-wows and he wanted the other sources of In dustrial life to profit. As long as prices were so low, Uiere could be no restoration of normal business activity,-. In the President's view. Carrying out this line of reasoning, there came the farm aid laws, the in flation authority, the farm and city home refinancing bills and other pow ers. The President withdrew govern ment support of the dollar in foreign exchange by saying there could be no gold exported. Obviously, prices went up. They moved In a hurry. Specu lation crept into the picture in a big way. The net result of this was that the cost of living moved rapidly high er but wages and salaries lagged be hind. The recovery administration thought the problem could be met by the Indus trial codes, but the codes were slow In getting started and numerous con troversies have arisen between units of particular Industries and between whole Industries and the recovery ad ministration. Delays were serving only to widen the margin between the two basic factors of wages and prices, and so (Jeneral Johnson and the Presi dent put their bends together on the code which we have been discussing. ? ? ? The recent nose dive In grain prices occasioned quite a bit of talk in Wash ington officialdom. Break in especially around tho Grain Prices 'Wtmont of Agri culture. Secretary Wallace, however, was the calmest man of the lot. He did riot let the fact disturb him that wheat dropped off 2.r? cents a bushel in one day for the rea son, he said, that Mr. John Q. Public was gambling In the market. Sooner or later, the secretary said. John Q. had to take a licking. Mr. Wul lace said, however, that pub lic participation In the grain market was not the sole reason for the sudden decline. He thought the rise In price bad hoert too rapid ami that a reac tion had set In. Another man In the Department of Agriculture likened the price rise to the growth of bean stalks In over-rich soil. It went all to top. Put the secretary said the members of t fie Board of Trade In Chicago saw the break coming and they sought to protect themselves hy en Ming for more collateral or cash from those who were trading on margins. That nat urally had the effect of frightening many speculators, according to Mr. Wallace, but be did not blame the Board of Trade members. ff was something of a combination of circum stances, then, that broke 'he grain markets. Nevertheless, the Department of At, rlculture Is watching the grain trading through numerous pairs of eves. One of the things It already has done Is to Invoke the provisions of the grain fu tures law which requires the Board of Trade at Chicago to make dally re ports of Individual trading where the amounts are bushels or more. The purpose of that Is to keep the de partment Informed as to who the big speculators are, since It Is conceived that a speculator can Influence the market seriously with lots of about r>00,000 bushels. t>. 3J, VVw?t<vrn N<>w?enpor Union